Fritz Hallgarten

Fritz Hallgarten with sons Hans Otto and Paul Arnold

Fritz Hallgarten (born July 9, 1865 as Friedrich Siegmund Hallgarten in New York City , † November 13, 1925 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German chemist .

He was the eldest son of Charles Hallgarten , who continued his father's business, patronage and voluntary social work. He was an honorary citizen of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , as he had "actively" contributed to the founding of this institution. From 1908 he worked for 16 years as chairman of the "Frankfurt Association for Convalescent Institutions", which ran the lung sanatorium in Ruppertshain in the Taunus . Here he excelled in the fight against tuberculosis , which is expressly mentioned in his obituary.

Obituary of the association, the tuberculosis sanatorium in Ruppertshain operation

Curriculum vitae from 1889 in Latin

Frankfurt family book

Obituary notice from the University of Frankfurt

The shipbuilding student Hans Hallgarten

Will in favor of the university

Family grave in the Frankfurt main cemetery

education

The son of Charles (Karl) Hallgarten and Elisa, née Mainzer, was of Jewish faith. When he was ten years old, his parents moved from New York to Frankfurt am Main. From the autumn of 1877 he attended grammar school in Frankfurt , where he graduated from high school in spring 1884. He was then admitted to the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg , where he spent a semester studying natural sciences (his lecturers there were Robert Wilhelm Bunsen , Georg Hermann Quincke and Leo Koenigsberger ). He then moved to the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin, where he studied chemistry.

During his studies he took part in the chemical experiments under the direction of the capacities Rammelsberg and Liebermann. His lecturers were Wilhelm Dilthey , Carl Friedheim , Siegmund Gabriel , Hermann von Helmholtz , August Wilhelm von Hofmann , Heinrich Gustav Johannes Kayser , Carl Liebermann , Karl Adolph Paalzow , Karl Friedrich Rammelsberg , Ferdinand Tiemann , Carl Hermann Wichelhaus , Otto Nikolaus Witt and Zeller. In his vita, which precedes his dissertation ( Derivate des Anthranols , 1889) in Latin, his teacher Carl Liebermann - a great uncle of Walther Rathenau - received special thanks.

family

On November 28, 1892 he married "Yella" (actually: Henriette Ottilie Auguste), née Bonn (* November 30, 1872 Frankfurt am Main ; † September 28, 1926 ibid). She was Moritz Julius Bonn's cousin , daughter of Philipp Bernhard Bonn and niece of Wilhelm Bernhard Bonn (all honorary citizens of the city of Kronberg ). Fritz Hallgarten was Max Neisser's brother-in-law and Liselotte Dieckmann's and Richard Hallgarten's uncle . Thus, several references to the Thomas Manns and Fritz Andreaes families can be identified. The marriage had two sons:

1. Hans Otto (born September 29, 1893 (or March 29) in Frankfurt am Main , † June 23, 1916 in Verdun ). From September 30, 1912 he served in Ansbach in the Uhlan regiment as a one-year-old. He attended the Lessing-Gymnasium and studied "Shipbuilding" at the TH-Charlottenburg.

2. Paul Arnold (* December 7, 1902 Frankfurt am Main ; † 1930 Salzburg ) ∞ Painter Marie Elisabeth Wrede (* 1898 Freilassing ; † 1981 Paris )

According to the family register, the Hallgarten couple transferred to the Protestant Reformed Church on June 28, 1911 and the children were baptized in the Evangelical Reformed Church .

Awards

Medals and decorations Red Cross Medal III. without number dated September 10, 1917
Honorary citizenship of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University

literature

Hans-Otto Schembs , Arno Lustiger (ed.): Charles Hallgarten. Life and work of a Frankfurt social reformer and philanthropist. With contributions by Jens Friedemann, Arno Lustiger, Hans Otto Schembs and Ulrich Stascheit and a foreword by Klaus Töpfer . Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt 2003, ISBN 3-7973-0850-7 .
An American in Frankfurt am Main. The patron and social reformer Charles Hallgarten (1838–1908). Book accompanying the exhibition on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of death in the Frankfurt University Library April 9 to June 6, 2008. Edited by Rachel Heuberger and Helga Krohn with the assistance of Maike Strobel. Klostermann, Frankfurt a. M. 2008, ISBN 978-3-465-03589-3 .

Individual evidence

↑ The date of birth July 9th comes from Hallgarten's résumé in his dissertation. In the family book of the city of Frankfurt, July 10 is given.
↑ In the document dated October 15, 1924, which is deposited in the university archive, it says literally: “The Senate of the University of Frankfurt awards Dr. phil. Friedrich Hallgarten in Frankfurt am Main, in grateful recognition of his active contribution to the founding of the university, the dignity of an honorary citizen. ”Hallgarten replied with a letter of November 5, 1924:“ To the High Senate of the University of Frankfurt a / M. - I would like to express my special thanks to the High Senate for the high honor which I have received through the granting of the rights of an honorary citizen of the university and the submission of the external badge of this dignity. I can see this as recognition for the fact that the orthopedic university clinic, which I have endeavored to establish and integrate, is viewed as a valuable member of the university institutions; In this sense, I am particularly pleased with the great recognition. To my deep regret, my illness, which still ties me to bed, made it impossible for me to attend the celebration and express my gratitude personally. With the expression of the greatest respect, yours, Dr. Hallgarten - honorary citizen of the university. "
↑ The date of birth September 29th comes from the matriculation entry at the TH Charlottenburg, in the family book of the city of Frankfurt March 29th is given as the date of birth
↑ Paul Arnsberg does not include Hans Otto Hallgarten in his list of soldiers of Jewish descent who died in the First World War . See: "The History of the Frankfurt Jews since the French Revolution"

personal data
SURNAME	Hallgarten, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hallgarten, Friedrich Siegmund (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 9, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH	new York
DATE OF DEATH	November 13, 1925
Place of death	Frankfurt am Main

[1] The date of birth July 9th comes from Hallgarten's résumé in his dissertation. In the family book of the city of Frankfurt, July 10 is given.

[2] In the document dated October 15, 1924, which is deposited in the university archive, it says literally: “The Senate of the University of Frankfurt awards Dr. phil. Friedrich Hallgarten in Frankfurt am Main, in grateful recognition of his active contribution to the founding of the university, the dignity of an honorary citizen. ”Hallgarten replied with a letter of November 5, 1924:“ To the High Senate of the University of Frankfurt a / M. - I would like to express my special thanks to the High Senate for the high honor which I have received through the granting of the rights of an honorary citizen of the university and the submission of the external badge of this dignity. I can see this as recognition for the fact that the orthopedic university clinic, which I have endeavored to establish and integrate, is viewed as a valuable member of the university institutions; In this sense, I am particularly pleased with the great recognition. To my deep regret, my illness, which still ties me to bed, made it impossible for me to attend the celebration and express my gratitude personally. With the expression of the greatest respect, yours, Dr. Hallgarten - honorary citizen of the university. "

[3] The date of birth September 29th comes from the matriculation entry at the TH Charlottenburg, in the family book of the city of Frankfurt March 29th is given as the date of birth

[4] Paul Arnsberg does not include Hans Otto Hallgarten in his list of soldiers of Jewish descent who died in the First World War . See: "The History of the Frankfurt Jews since the French Revolution"